Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-20
WAXEM ABROAD.
HE INVESTIGATES THE MYSTERIES
OF LONDON TOWN.
He wonders Mt It's Size-Some People
from Near Wayback-His Visit to the
House of Commons-Senator Spooner
and q Chance Acquaintance.

A"" ->e"r "ayoack-His visit to the
House of Commons-Senator spooner
and q Chance Acquaintance.
| Especial Correspondence
LONDON, May 2S
When first landed in Washington, D. c..
| as member of congress from Wayback |
thought had struck just about as big a town
as was on the footstool, but foreign travel has
learned me a good deal in a mighty short
while. found it out before l had been in
London fifteen minutes. This town is bigger
than my entire deestrick and the Deestrick of
! Columbia to boot. But there's more beauty,
though, in two squares of Washington than
there is in the whole of London, and quality
is heap sight more valuable to a man Of my
mater than quantity.
The first day after we got here Mandy and
me concluded the best thing to do was to go
out to the suburbs somewhere and git up on
hill to git general view Of the town, SO we
took a stage and started out l reckon we
must have gone about dozen or fifteen miles
before we decided that the best thing for us
to do was to go back home and study up the
map.
have been wondering ever since how the
| dickens they ever got such whaling big
| town onto such a little island as England is.
find good many Americans here, and if
| didn't know every voter in my deestricl
should say some of the inhabitants of Way
back was in the lot. l can tell man from
Wayback as soon as lay my eyes on him,
and though l bain't seen any right from
headquarters, there's several from the
aiming counties. 1t makes one feel good to
meet them, too, for have been right lone
some at times, and so has Mandy.
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7 met tba Hon Raylass Hanna of Jndiaoo
the other day (le amt from WaybacE), our
United States minister to the Argentine re-
public, that wouldn't go to the Persian court
because the mileage come out of his salary
land don't blame HIM, and we had long
chat on the street corner, and went and took
a glass of apollinaris water. Bayless is a
statesman that admire. He is plain man |
that knows how to combine statecraft with
harmless pleasure, and a good all round
statesman like that is as valuable as he is |
skeerce. That's one of my best pints and |
pride myself on it.
My colleague in the house. Hon Perry Bel
mont, of New York, chairman Of the foreign
relations committee, was also in town when
got here. reckon he was Citing solid with
his foreign relations, for he had been out the
night before eating a meal of vttles with
Randolph Churchill, who ought to be a meni-
Der Of congress in our great and glorious re-
public, lnstid OF representing deestrick in
the house OF commons under a throne Mr.. |
Belmont was looking as well as usual in his
black silk neck scarf and his grim gaze OF
stern reserve. Perry always struck me as a
statesman that was cut out for prime min
lister or a bronze statute never could settle
i'll my mind just which.
Senator Spooner, Of Wisconsin, was doing
the town up, too like was, and like me, he
ha1 xuif n, -
been so far away from home before and
never had, and l think we was the gladdest
two men to meet you ever saw, Mr. Editor.
He had been looking around, he said to find
somebody that spoke American, and he hal
beard a man down on the Thames embank-
ment talking and had tackled him. SAYS the
senator TO him:
Are you an American?'
'Thank God, | am" was the answer, and
it reminded me as the senator told it that
every American feels just that very way,
when he gets lonesome and fellow citizen
happens TO find him. while his eyes are sore
to see the star spangled banner and his ears
are weary waiting to hear the inspiring
strains OF Yankee Doodle Dandy. Ny expe-
rlence has learned me that the lonesonest
cfetur on Gods green earth is a true patriot
ON foreign Sile-uniesS he is there at govern
The senator was giving me some pints on
the exorbitaut and usurous outrages i'm
posed on him while crossing the ocean, by
the walters and other people on the ship that
brought him over. His fees to this enemy
that ship company aids and abets was S25.
why" says the senator, Citing hot as he
thought about it, 81 paid s. to the ships
doctor for pill"
~
"But digress" What want to tell YOUR
readers about is my visit to the house OF
commons, where the representative men of
England do the national legislating as we do
III congress. or course, to a man Of my taste
and training, that was the fust place Of in
tereSt IL London, and l went there il = o1rilt
way to see the proceedings.
The building was familiar to me from the
pictures had saw Of it, but it amt anything
ike 50 handsome as the beautiful picture in
marble whore the American conyress meets,
It Is of sandstone, and has got more iounces
md furbelo"s on 10 it than Mandy's best
lress that she wore TO MIS- Cleve,ands recep-
ION There's towers and piuickles, and
weather vanes and statuary, and fancy win
lows and fub dubs till you can't rest. IL
ooked to me good deal more like an expo-
ition building for fine arts and store goods +.
nan hall of grave and solemn legislation
Wei, as was saying, strolled over that way
me evening they meet at 4 or 5 o'clock
md spoil the night for those outside dvertise |